Improved looking-glass



i UNITED n STATES PATENT GEEICE.

HOSEA VVILLARD, VERGENNES, VERMONT.

IMPROVED LOOKING-GLASS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,344, dated May 20, 1862.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I-IOsEA VVILLARD, of Vergennes, in the county of Addison and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mirrors or Looking'- Glasses; 4and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and. eXact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front or face view of my i11- vention; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line a: Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two gures.

This invention relates to a new and improved mirror or looking-glass for domestic or household use; and it consists in construct ing the mirror of a plurality ot' planes, so placed as to form a longitudinal section of a lpolygon and admit, when suspended or fixed in proper position, of seve 1al persons using the mirror at the same time without in the least interfering with each other.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, IV

will proceed to describe it.

A A A represent three mirrors, or a single mirror formed of three different planes connected so as to form obtuse angleswith each other and constitute a longitudinal section ot' a polygon. This mirror is tted in a frame, B, having parallel sides a. a. and top and bottom" pieces o l), which are formed each of three separate parts connected by bevel or miter joints, so asto correspond with the position oi' the several planes of the mirror. (See more particularly Fig. 2.) The sides and top and bottom of the mirror may be fitted in the framein the usual or in any proper way; and if the several planes A A A are formed of separate and distinct pieces they are simply abutted against each other, as shown in Fig. 1, to form as close a joint `as possible. VBy this arrangement it will be seen that each plane of the mirror will form a reilecting-suriace independent of its adjoining ones, and the several planes may be simultan eously used by different individuals without one interfering with the other.

A mirror may be constructed on this plan having two planes, and more than three plan es `may be used. If four planes should be used,`

it will be seen that the mirror will not project far from the wallnot so tar as to render it an obstruction in any degree to persons in an apartment. It will admit ot' being suspended to a wall in the same way as an ordinary mirror. v

The invention will prove a great acquisition for reception and dressing rooms, and in fact will prove advantageous in all cases where several persons might desire to use a mirror at the same time. It also possesses the advantage of reflecting objects from various partsot' a room. A mirror of three or more planes will most generally embrace in the compass of the reflection ot' .its severall planes nearly the whole of an apartment.

I do not claim, broadly, the employment or use ot reliecting-surfaces formed ot' several planes placed together angularly with each other, irrespective of the' particular adapta. tion and use of such device, for metal lampreflectors have been thus arranged; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new and improved article of manufacture, is- J A mirror or looking-glass for domestic or household use constructed of a plurality of planes placed in contact with each other, so as to form a longitudinal section of apolygon,

herein set forth.

, I-IOSEA XVILLARD.

l/Vitnesses:Y

GEORGE W. GRANDEY, J. E. ROBERTS. 

